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Startup program

Startup? Apply to join the DPW Conference 2022 startup program

DPW puts your startup front and centre. Our conference has been a game changer event for startups, who benefit from workshops, competitions, mentor hours, and networking opportunities with investors, industry experts and procurement professionals. 

APPLY TO JOIN DPW CONFERENCE 2022

Why join the startup program

Develop your skills

We offer dedicated sessions and networking opportunities designed to cater only startups and founders attending DPW Conference.

Make connections

Use our award-winning matchmaking and networking platform to connect and meet with investors and procurement professionals.

Build your brand

Get listed as an attending startup and be seen by media, bloggers and procurement teams who are actively looking for solutions.

Pitch on stage

Hand-selected startups get the chance to present their company and their vision to our attendees and investors live on our main stage.

Startup activations at DPW Conference

An exclusive side event offering founders hands-on mentoring and advice delivered by leading investors and founders of the scaleups who have made the procurement ecosystem what it is today.
The largest startup pitch competition in procurement, DEMO brings together the most disruptive startups in procurement. The competition’s Grand Finale take place live on our main stage.
Showcase your product at the designated Startup Alley in the exhibition hall. Startup Alley is constantly busy, which makes it an exceptional opportunity to attract the attention of potential clients, sponsors, and investors.
Investor to startup meetings are a series of pre-scheduled, 15-minute meetings between investors and the leading startups attending. Startups who purchase a startup package are automatically added to our Investor to startup meetings portal.
Startup Spotlight shines a light on your idea. Each day, hand-selected startups have three minutes to present their company and their vision to our attendees and investors live on our main stage.
Startup Mentoring is a series of pre-scheduled, hour-long group meetings between our high-level attendees and startups.

Meet some of our past startups

yaydoo
paid
scoutbee
candex
prewave
cirplus
farm
circulor
xeeva
archlet

“DPW has been a game-changing event for us. We won a multi-year contract with one of the largest CPG companies in the world after pitching at DEMO.”

SupplyHive

“This was one of the highest quality conferences I’ve been involved in. Thank you so much, DPW! Since the event, we have already been reached by 5 enterprises, all $10B+ revenue. This is something.”

PACTUM

“This is the best event for startups in procurement. Being able to tell our story to a large audience and get our name out there is what we, like any startup, really need.”

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